Clitocybe fragrans, also known as the Fragrant Funnel, is a small agaric mushroom recognized for its distinctive sweet, anise-like fragrance. The cap is slightly depressed and pale yellowish-brown or cream, with whitish, barely decurrent gills and can develop a translucent striate cap margin in wet conditions. This mushroom is typically found in coniferous and mixed woodlands, favouring nutrient-poor, acidic soils. It tends to grow in groups during late autumn to early winter.

Cap hygrophanous (changing colour as it dries) and greyish brown when wet becoming creamy white when dry. It is smooth and initially flattened and convex, later becoming shallowly infundibuliform (funnel-shaped). The margin can in wet weather be translucently striate. The flesh is white or buff and thin. Gills whitish buff, adnate to decurrent (attached broadly to the stem and running slightly down it), broad, and crowded. Stem coloured similarly to the cap, more or less equal in width, sometimes curved at the base. It is silky or pruinose (covered with a fine powder) towards the apex and slightly woolly at the base. It has no ring. The flesh is white or buff, thin, and can be stuffed or hollow. Spore print pale cream.

Microscopic Features: Spores are ellipsoidal and smooth, measuring 6.5-9 x 3.5-5 μm.

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